Nice, & a fast turn around!!!

aye well, I'm not driving it with the waterpump losing that much oil and squeeking like a hamster, its a ticking time-bomb, so ill get one tomorrow and do it thursday evening probably, i want a day off from playing with cars, and i have some walls to paint.

will strip down the afh lump and get pictures of the shattered pieces i picked up out of the bay on saturday haha

Oil coming from your waterpump

You need to stop smoking so much dude hahaha

hahaha legend!

i need to learn to proof read!

Good luck getting all the finishing touches done. What gearbox have you put on this one? :) No fan on the mk4 alternator I see. Does it even need one?

i think they all need fans, the fans are within the casing on the mk4 alternators, so i wonder if its a problem thats happened before, hence the need to change the design.

its got a AHD box on it, so its gonna be rev happy but I'm gonna waste alot of time shifting, and its not going to be quiet on long journerys on the motorway.

ordered another new water pump today but cant get to trafford park to pick it up =[

another new water pump *sigh* fitted and all back together again.

batt flattery tho. dreadamon!

pidge is dropping off me battery charger tomorrow and will fire it up in the daytime, should be sweet. tres excited brap brap

woohoo, shes alive. twas a dead starter!

survived the drive to work this morning, was a little tappety after warming up, hopefully its due to the thin oil - 5w40 fully synth, and the fact that the tappets dried out whilst the engine has been sitting for the last couple of months.

fingers cross all is well, but I'm a happy boy to be driving again.

shattered remnants after the pod

the head looking a little forelorne and stripped of its cams

anyway this lil beasty failed me early last week

the machined rod for the relay roller, failed and sheered off, leaving me in the same situation as with the previous engine!

on the plus side, the machinist managed to drill out the relay roller using a beast of a milling machine, so its now a M10 threaded bar which i will be replacing with a hi-tensile bolt.

anyway damage seemed minor, drilled out the sheered end of the rod, fitted new relay roller and retensioned everything up, car wouldnt start up, starter motor just whirrs like mad (tried two and tried smacking it with a hammer) and we tested two cylinders, no compression at all, not even a smidge.

floor jacks ftw

stripped it down and she was not a pretty sight, so its game over for that engine, it will be rebuilt and my 2nd lump which has already been cleaned up and honed, is just awaiting piston rings and shells, cams installing and clearances checking and its good to go again!

holy fuckerino, unlucky on both accounts dude :/

think I'm gonna invest in a new cambelt kit cos its made me paranoid now!!

new engine on loan from the pidge (g40 ad's spare - he has another aswell, that is fitted in his mk1, currently up for sale)

woohoo new exhaust arrived thanks to olly, seen in the middle, which will be the perils new exhaust when she gets valvered again

one on the left is a temp, from the pidge for the mk2 while its aee'd

one of the right is the mk2s old one, while will be going in the mk1

gsx-r carbs again off pidge, fitted with honda rubbers

just got the last few jobs to do tomorrow

* Fit centre section and backbox

* Fit shift rod for gearlinkage

* Fit carbs

* Fit Alternator

*Wiring - Earth for Temp Sender, Oil Pressure Switches

win

Bring on mobile Saf once again!!!

whacka bit of polish on that rocker too saf...

sweet! Good job and quick too!

karl's tweaking on the GT got it running alot smoother now, feels quicker too, and throttle responce is ace! Woop Woop!

Edited 27 September, 201015 yr by mattpolo5491

Yeh man, Karls a hero. his is back to health again with your TB and his TPS!

He reckons hes got a bit more poke than before too and had a good play on the A50 on the way home!

Top weekend all round.

Pidgey - your a foooking legend. I will get some polish on that rocker and have it shiny shiny (well not that shiny) soon. wooooooooooooooop brappymcbraaaaaaaaaaaaaap!

its alive again, really need to sort an alternator tensioning bracket out tho, or go back to a mk3 alternator (this time with a woodruff key channel put in the mk4 alternator pulley to avoid the same fate as before)

took it for a test drive to bleed the water system and do some asda shopping and then went a 25 min drive, once the alternatays done, itll be back in daily action again

Edited 28 September, 201015 yr by grungeisdead

haha cant believe I've fucked another diff. cars are actually gay

Edited 10 October, 201015 yr by grungeisdead

gayyy :( did you pick up the merk2?

lol dude!

How on earth do you do all this shit?

yeh went for it on friday, didnt get back till half 2! stopped off at my mams for epic spag bol which was safe as fook!

i need to get a throttle cable for the GT and then its ready for an mot, still need to grab dremmy off you and do you wanna borrow these ignition bits or you going motorfactors? if so will you see if they have a throttle cable in =]

lol dude!

How on earth do you do all this shit?

the torque ripped up the aluminum chassis and the welds off the intake manifold

ooh, i'll have to pop round to see it tomorrow

yeah i'll go euro before uni tomorrow. will let you know about a throttle cable. for the gt? text me the reg.

think my new rubbers have sorted my mpg. went to cumbria and back for some new wheels on less than half a tank today =D

Bloody hell Saf my man. thought i was having some bad luck.

I've got a spare throttle cable in the car i robbed from the scrappy if you need a cheap one? Came off a fox so i have no idea if its the same or not although i assumed it would be. Bosh me a text if you want it and i'll get it out in el firsto classio.

ahhh tez the golf isnt mine, its sals!

mint about the carb rubbers happy days! glad to hear its mcwin again. how many miles is that then to cumbria.

carbs staying on now i take it?!

jon will let you know dudeface danke

to stop this dissapearing, and with a rolling shot that just got pasted on facebook today, i thought id update you on the current plans

heres are the couple of pics, courtesy of rach (smiler)

just bought an afh head for 45 quid, and as i have all the spares in the house to build up an afh/arc hybrid and a couple of spare 5-speeds, I'm going to throw that in the peril and drive her until the tax runs out at the end of january, giving me plenty of time to sort out all the niggly bits on the G, and get the rebuilt 1600 with schricks out the workshop for the mk1.

need to enquire about trade insurance too, as I'm up for renewal on the 12th!

long term I'm torn between so many possibilites, i have the parts to build an abd or g40 charged (either turbo or super) and 2 1600 hybrid lumps. i really want to make the peril a reliable daily driver, so i can rely it on all day long for work runs, so its either a low boost setup, or the economy of the 1600 carbed setup no matter what your driving style.

i wanted to avoid the Mk1 going the route of forced induction, because its been done so well before, with the now players owned bronze mk1.

so answers on the postcode. which gets NA, which gets boost? Mk1 or the Mk2.

i miss the peril :( u have to boost it !